Daily News | Coming in 2023: A $25 million rooftop restaurant for the Union League
The Union League did not respond to requests for comment about the project. Members are not allowed to speak to the media about club business.
“We believe that this … will allow us to respect our history as we move from being your grandfather’s club to being your granddaughter’s club of the future,” Jeff McFadden, CEO of the Union League, said at a 2021 Historical Commission meeting, when the project was given permission to move forward. The Union League’s leadership had been contemplating an upward expansion for a couple years before the pandemic and the club decided to move forward with the rooftop dining expansion in early 2020 before the pandemic struck. The original cost was slated to be $18 million, but construction prices have spiked since. Last year McFadden told the Historical Commission that the project is being built with union labor and would add 25 permanent jobs to the club’s 450-person workforce.
Construction is expected to be completed by this time next year. It will include a 9,600-square-foot rooftop restaurant with a 1,400-square-foot outdoor terrace. It is designed to largely be invisible from the street. The restaurant is being built atop the Union League’s annex, an addition that was constructed between 1909 and 1911 by renownedA vestige of another era, the club feels like something out of a Henry James novel. The original red brick Second Empire edifice at 140 S. Broad St. dates back to the 1860s and was designed by
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